Creating a weather map

We'd like to display a small weather map. So we need to modify the map. And we need to turn on the satellite view, enable the clouds and enable the country border lines.

Again MarbleWidget provides a convenient way to make these changes to the overall look and feel of the map.

By default Marble shows a few info boxes: Overview Map, Compass and ScaleBar. But the size for the widget is very limited. Therefore we want to shrink the compass. And we want to get rid of all the clutter, so we turn off the Overview Map and the ScaleBar. In the source code the class AbstractFloatItem is used to display all kinds of Info Boxes. All the Info Boxes are derived from the AbstractFloatItem class. Now we get a list of all the float items that are known to MarbleWidget and we go through it. Once we reach the float item which has got the name id "compass" we make all the changes we want to it:

include <QtGui/QApplication>

include <marble/global.h>

include <marble/MarbleWidget.h>

include <marble/AbstractFloatItem.h>

using namespace Marble;

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{

QApplication app(argc,argv);

// Create a Marble QWidget without a parent
MarbleWidget *mapWidget = new MarbleWidget();